Andrew McCallum

McCallum graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1989. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Rochester in 1995 under the supervision of Dana H. Ballard. He was then a postdoctoral fellow, working with Sebastian Thrun and Tom M. Mitchell at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Research Scientist and Research Coordinator at Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center. From 2000 to 2002 was Vice President of Research and Development at WhizBang Labs, and Director of its Pittsburgh office. Since 2002, he worked as a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2020, he also joined Google as a part-time research scientist.

He was elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence{{Cite web|url=http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows.php|title = AAAI Fellows Program}} in 2009, and as an Association for Computing Machinery{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners?year=2017&award=158|title=All Award Winners|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2017-12-22}} in 2017. From 2014 to 2017 he was the President of International Machine Learning Society (IMLS),{{cite web |url=http://www.machinelearning.org/board.html |title=IMLS Board|website=machinelearning.org |quote=President-Elect Andrew McCallum |access-date=19 March 2015}} which organizes the International Conference on Machine Learning. He is also the director of the Center for Data Science at UMass, leading a new partnership with the Chan and Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2018, the initiative made an initial grant of 5.5 million to the center, supporting research to facilitate new ways for scientists to explore and discover research articles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-center-data-science-partners-chan|title=UMass Center for Data Science Partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Accelerate Science and Medicine|website=umass.edu|access-date=2018-01-26}}

In collaboration with John D. Lafferty and Fernando Pereira, McCallum developed conditional random fields, first described in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).{{cite conference

| author = Lafferty, J.

|author2= McCallum, A.|author3= Pereira, F.C.N.

| year = 2001

| title = Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data

| book-title = International Conference on Machine Learning

| pages = 79–87

}} In 2011 this research paper won the ICML "Test of Time" (10-year best paper) award.{{cite web |url=http://www.icml-2011.org/papers.php |title=Test-of-Time Award ICML'11|date=2011 |website=ICML |quote=John D. Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando C. N. Pereira. Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data. |access-date=15 December 2014}}

McCallum has written several widely used{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&rls=en&q=mccallum%20rainbow%20software&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws |title=Google Scholar search for +mccallum +rainbow +software |access-date=2010-05-31}} open-source software toolkits for machine learning, natural language processing and other text processing, including Rainbow,{{cite web|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/bow/| title=Rainbow |access-date=2010-05-31| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100526062715/https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/bow/| archive-date= 26 May 2010 | url-status= live}} Mallet (software project), and FACTORIE.{{cite web|url=http://factorie.cs.umass.edu| title=FACTORIE |access-date=2014-05-20}} In addition, he was instrumental in publishing the Enron Corpus, a large collection of emails that has been used as a basis for a number of academic studies of social networking and language.

McCallum instigated and directs the nonprofit project OpenReview.net, an online platform that aims to promote openness in scientific communication, particularly the peer review process, by providing a flexible cloud-based web interface and underlying database API.{{Cite web|url=https://openreview.net/about|title = OpenReview}}

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• [http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/ Andrew McCallum's home page]
• [http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/pubs.html Andrew McCallum's published papers]

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